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The first time I heard a critique of mediated experience, the critic was my dad. He was an avid photographer who, during our family’s year in India, when I was a young child, used his 35mm Exacta to capture thousands of photos that became carousels of color slides we viewed for many years thereafter. It was a remarkable documentary effort that solidified our memories of that year. But dad was …

Happy Sunday, everyone! Just in time for what feels like the longest Black Friday sale in history, I am bringing you a special holiday shopping guide edition of the Hiro Report. Below, we’ve got a whole bunch of Hiro-approved gift ideas spread across four price brackets.Please note that many of these links are affiliate links that may get me a little kickback but, as always, I am only recommending products …

This made me chuckle This made me frown Still enough of a believer to consider it defilement to have a version of "Sex Pistols" tread the boards without Johnny Rotten.... Other bands that go the prosthetic singer route, I'm not so bothered.Well, there's one and half others on the same Glasgow punkstalgia lineup that are doing that - The Stranglers, sans Hugh Cornwell, with a younger-than-the-others singer (younger-than-the-others - what …

Today is the beginning of #16DaysOfActivism2024 for No Violence against Women and Children. To mark the occasion we have a blog from Vishal Bhavsar exploring the effectiveness of interventions for perpetrators of intimate partner violence. The post Can behavioural programmes reduce partner abuse by people with mental illness or substance use problems? #16DaysOfActivism2024 appeared first on National Elf Service.

Love that Wond - haven't broken it out enough lately, but now that I've got tags and playlists for those tags, I am revisiting everything I've been doing with it. It's a device that really speaks to me, that I feel very much at home with. Lots of drillin today. I exchanged a bottle of whiskey for hay today.

Peek-a-boo-ed by clouds, the full moon rises up from the far shore of the lake. Peek-a-moon That shore is colored by the last of the sunset.Moonrise in 3d For stereogrammers, the scene is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.

Wow, it’s actually back. DesignTide Tokyo, the annual design event held each fall from 2005 to 2012, is returning to Tokyo this week to reclaim it’s rightful title of “A Place to Trade Ideas.” The last time we wrote about DesignTide, London had just hosted the Summer Olympics and Obama had been reelected as U.S. […] Related posts: DesignTide Tokyo 2011 | Gulliver Table by Torafu DesignTide Tokyo 2011 | …

News and information about current and future airports in Laos. Index Laos airports map International airports in Laos Attapeu International Airport (AOU) (Attapeu) [Inactive] Bokeo International Airport (BOK) (Golden Triangle SEZ) Luang Prabang International Airport (LPQ) (Luang Prabang) Pakse International Airport (PKZ) (Pakse) Savannakhet Airport (ZVK) (Savannakhet) Wattay International Airport (VTE) (Vientiane) Domestic airports in Laos Boon Neua Airport (PCQ) (Boon Neua) [Inactive] Huay Xai Airport (HOE) (Ban Houayxay) [Inactive] …

Artist: Ad Vitam Infernal Album: Le Ballet des Anges Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/MWampDm6JEY / https://doloremrecords.bandcamp.com/ad vitam infernal Country: France Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. The Overture 2. And the Watchers Will Be Frightened 3. Shemihazah the Great 4. Asael (God Has Made...) 5. Enchain Them All! 6. A Peaceful Place to Wait... 7. Wandering Spirits 8. I Saw Everything 9. Free Will Has Set Us Free 10. …

I’ve been backtracking a bit. Whether it’s through improved flying skills, or greater knowledge of effective tactics, or just having access to all the Special Items now, I’ve managed to pass level 4 on Normal difficulty, with the result that I can start Normal games at level 5 from now on. I’ve also tried restarting from the very beginning on Easy. There are advantages to this: by the time you …

When Honeycomb was a small company, All Hands meetings had announcements and discussions. Discussions mostly took place in the meeting chat, where everyone can answer anyone’s question. Between that and the announce channel in Slack, information got out to the whole company. Or did it? It’s hard to check for understanding in that big a forum. We’re past 150 people now, past the number of people who can know each …

Last August I posted an item about the visit my brother and I made to the Fayette Art Museum the month before. In this post I wanted to offer photos and information about the city of Fayette itself.The town is located in northwest Alabama and is the seat of Fayette County. That county was created by the legislature on December 20, 1824, from parts of Marion and Tuscaloosa counties. The …

This is a shortlisted entry from the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024.If you like reading about philosophy, here's a free, weekly newsletter with articles just like this one: Send it to me! I see myself and a multitude of other Grasshoppers engaged in playing the most elaborate, subtle, and challenging games. […] And the Utopians will look back on names like Queensbury, Naismith, the Parker Brothers, even Rubix, with …

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Miller Oberman’s poetry collection Impossible Things is a mesmerizing elegy for a young child and thoughtful examination of the author’s own childhood. The …